Climate twins of Davis, SD

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Davis's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.

Rank 1 closest
Terril, IA
similarity distance: 0.732 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Superior, IA
similarity distance: 0.732 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Morgan, MN
similarity distance: 0.799 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Davis vs its climate twin

Top match: Terril, IA

Month Davis Terril
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 26.9°F 6.8°F 0.44 in 24.0°F 7.1°F 0.55 in
February 31.9°F 11.0°F 0.63 in 28.3°F 11.0°F 0.63 in
March 44.9°F 22.9°F 1.38 in 41.6°F 23.2°F 1.43 in
April 58.5°F 34.0°F 2.69 in 55.9°F 35.1°F 2.99 in
May 70.2°F 46.8°F 3.87 in 68.2°F 47.6°F 4.13 in
June 80.4°F 58.1°F 4.29 in 78.9°F 58.6°F 4.77 in
July 84.4°F 61.7°F 3.05 in 82.8°F 62.6°F 3.53 in
August 81.9°F 59.1°F 3.20 in 80.1°F 60.2°F 3.69 in
September 75.4°F 49.6°F 3.12 in 73.1°F 52.1°F 3.03 in
October 61.5°F 36.1°F 2.32 in 59.0°F 38.6°F 2.09 in
November 45.1°F 22.7°F 1.23 in 42.3°F 24.9°F 1.39 in
December 31.3°F 12.0°F 0.66 in 28.6°F 12.9°F 0.82 in

Cities that consider Davis their climate twin

These US cities have Davis in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Davis would feel familiar.

How this is computed

Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →